How to connect Samsung Galaxy Gear to the Nexus 5

The Galaxy Gear comes with one major fault – it works only with select Samsung smartphones like the Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Mega. Let’s say you own some other, non-Samsung device and you want to connect it to the Galaxy Gear – you can’t do it. At least not using the default configuration.

Enter XDA hackers who have managed to “force” Galaxy Gear accept connections from few other devices including the Nexus 5 and Sony Xperia Z Ultra with Google Play Edition software (so we guess HTC One Google Play Edition will work just as well). Here’s what you need to do to get notifications to your Nexus 5 (or some Google Edition smartphone):

Now choose which notifications you’d like to receive on your Galaxy Gear from ATNManager.

And you should be good to go. Unfortunately, weather widget/app won’t work and the same goes for S-Voice. The rest of the features should work like charm, including the dialer, voice memo, contacts and find my device. Sweet.

Worked 100% with my Nexus. I got curious so I rooted my Galaxy Gear… If youre going to root the watch you have to uninstall everything (included the 20 APKs) and reinstall them and the ATN Manager or you will not get any Notifications after you root it.

matthew

I’d like to see a video of someone doing this so I could follow along step by step

Simon Paris

anyone else not getting any text in the notification, I just get the name of the app and the name of the person who texted…